A Ulysses man has been sentenced to life in prison.

29-year-old Agustin Arredondo is sentenced in connection with the 2019 death of a child. Grant County District Judge Clinton Peterson sentenced Arredondo to life in a Kansas Department of Corrections facility without the possibility of parole for 25 years for the first-degree murder of a 3-year-old child.

In addition, Arredondo was given 110 months in a KDOC facility for one count of child abuse. The sentences are to be served consecutively, followed by lifetime post-release supervision.